Ex-Marlins exec says owner bought team to get Derek Jeter's digits

David Samson served as the Marlins’ team president and one of the team’s foremost front-office spokespeople for 16 years. In September of 2017, a Marlins’ new ownership group headlined by Derek Jeter and billionaire businessman Bruce Sherman ousted Samson, but Samson’s contract with the club prevented him from speaking candidly about the operation until this past Halloween, according to the Miami Herald.

Never one to shy from the spotlight, the former Survivor contestant opened up about some aspects of his tenure with the club in an interview with Dan Le Batard on 790 the Ticket sports radio in Miami on Wednesday. Samson’s whole frank, funny interview is worth a listen, if only for the anecdote about when he caught Ricky Nolasco out eating pizza late at night before a start:

Samson hardly minced words when discussing his relationship with the club’s new ownership group, claiming that Jeter led him to believe he wouldn’t be fired to curry favor in sale negotiations and that Sherman — the principal investor in the new group — only fronted so much money because of Jeter’s allure.

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